Dr. Freddy Abnousi, Head of Healthcare at Facebook, published a paper with his colleagues in JAMA about Social Determinants of Health in the Digital Age. They argue that: "Social media user profiles represent archives of people’s activities and connections, curated in real time. This information has the potential to improve understanding of the social determinants of health in a deeper way than prior data sources have ever allowed, and, in turn, identify novel targets that could meaningfully influence health outcomes." This would mean a big boost for digital biomarkers. What chance do you think such sets of data have to become biomarkers that could be used in studies? #biomarker #healthcare #health #medicine #digitalhealth …see more